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No space for Power Mongers in PTI, Saifullah Khan Niazi
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Posted in Politics on 26 January 2012

Swabi : Additional secretary general PTI Saifullah Khan Niazi has said that there is no space for power mongers in the party. If someone is joining PTI to come in power, he will will be disappointed . However the people who are joining the PTI to save Pakistan and to bring social and economic justice [...]

PTI has strongly condemned the malicious propaganda by some elements about the appointment of a new Women Wing President in Sindh
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Posted in Politics on 26 January 2012

PTI has strongly condemned the malicious propaganda by some elements about the appointment of a new Women Wing President in Sindh At a time when the party has grown, with bigger challenges ahead, it is sad that some people are out to discredit the image of PTI by such mischief. The appointment or dismissal of [...]

The Silenced Middle East Property Investors
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Posted in Business on 16 January 2012

(Damac Property) Travel back only 4 years and you would see Middle East listed on all papers as the next boom market in the world. But all of the sudden the world economics turned and everything came crashing down. And now lies unbuilt properties in the dusty sands. So what about these investors well they [...]

Wales’ recycling success goes on and on
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Posted in Lifestyle/Leisure on 15 January 2012

The latest recycling statistics are the highest quarterly recycling figures ever recorded for Wales, or indeed for any UK nation. The new figures show that Wales produced 388 thousand tonnes of municipal waste between July and September 2011, which was five per cent less than the waste produced in the same period in 2010. They [...]

Youth unemployment on Dublin agenda
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Posted in Politics on 15 January 2012

The Ministers are meeting for the latest British-Irish Council summit which will be chaired by the Taoiseach Enda Kenny. The First Minister will set out how the Welsh Government is taking action to tackle youth unemployment, including creating more Apprentices and through the £75 million Jobs Growth Wales programme. Welsh Local Government and Communities Minister [...]

Councils given the freedom to stop people playing the social housing system
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Posted in Politics on 15 January 2012

The sense of injustice associated with the system for social housing is finally coming to an end, Housing Minister Grant Shapps said today. Mr Shapps said new allocations guidance he published today for consultation will release councils and housing associations from the shackles of the current tick-box approach for allocating social homes. The new freedoms [...]

Public Access to Meetings of the Land Planning and Development Control Board
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Posted in Politics on 15 January 2012

From January 2012 members of the public now have the opportunity to attend and speak at meetings of the Land Planning and Development Control Board when development applications are being considered. Below are some answers to questions you may have. Does the right to attend change the way development applications are publicised and how representations [...]

First Minister Alex Salmond on visit to the Gulf
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Posted in Politics on 15 January 2012

First Minister Alex Salmond will travel to Abu Dhabi today on a two-day visit which will include signing a deal on renewables and addressing an audience of world leaders when he attends the World Future Energy Summit as a guest of Masdar – the world’s leading innovator in green energy products. Other speakers include UN [...]

Qatar wins a number of awards in the World Travel Awards grand final!
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Posted in Business on 15 January 2012

Qatar has swept up a number of big wins at the World Travel Awards grand final, which was held in Doha on January 11 at Katara. The event is often hailed as the “Oscars of the travel industry.” It celebrates the best service providers, with more than 5,000 companies from 162 countries nominated in 1,000 [...]

Guantanamo Ten Years On: Facts and Figures – Human Rights Watch
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Posted in Politics on 14 January 2012

Over the past two years the US Congress has enacted legislation blocking the transfer of detainees at Guantanamo to the United States for trial. One aim of the legislation is to compel the government to try terrorism suspects before military commissions at Guantanamo rather than in federal courts. While the rules governing military commissions have [...]